We're getting a Kenobi movie!

With Disney’s untitled Han Solo “Star Wars” standalone film approaching the finish line, Disney is now looking to tell the story of another iconic character in a galaxy far, far away.

Sources tell Variety that Disney is in early development on a film centered on Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi and is in talks with “Billy Elliot’s” Stephen Daldry to direct.

The character appeared in the first six “Star Wars” films, first played by Alec Guinness in Episodes 4-6 and then by Ewan McGregor in Episodes 1-3. Kenobi is best known as the Jedi master who first trained Anakin Skywalker, who would later turn to the dark side and became Darth Vader. Kenobi would then go on to train Skywalker’s son Luke before falling to Vader in “Star Wars: A New Hope.”

There is not yet a script or a writer, sources say, and it’s currently unknown if this will be the next standalone story in the “Star Wars” universe.

Disney has been developing several standalone pics with the goal of keeping fans buying tickets while they wait for the next episodes in the main new trilogy. “Rogue One” was the first of the standalones, and Disney is currently shooting an untitled origin tale of beloved smuggler Han Solo. Some of the other standalones in development include a Jabba the Hutt story and a Boba Fett movie.

Daldry cut his teeth in the theater world and made his feature debut with the Oscar-nominated “Billy Elliot.” He followed that up with critically acclaimed films like “The Hours” and “The Reader.” He most recently directed episodes of Netflix’s period drama “The Crown.”

Daldry is repped by CAA.

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I've been looking forward to this for a long time, ever since May 19th 2005, in fact. And if they get Ewan, which i'm pretty sure they're obligated to do, given the fact they got him for Episode VII and that he's expressed interest in coming back to the franchise, It might be a better movie than the ******** the han solo movie is supposed to be. I'm not exactly sure who this Daldry fellow is, but I do hope he understands star wars, and I hope he can pull it off. I'm confident Kathleen Kennedy and lucasfilm in general can do the movie well.

Kenobi has always been my favorite Jedi, mostly because of 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars'. If they make him black, it would shatter me. Not because he would be black, but because I think he is perfect the way he is.

Yeah when it's something like marvel which has multiple universes. Star wars has only one canon universe. If they were to make an established character like luke or leia or han or obi-wan, black, then the backlash would be astronomical. You'd have to retcon like 99% of the universe, the movies, everything. That'd literally kill the star wars franchise.

I would. Lucasfilm, in it's 40 year history, has never made an established character another race, unless we're counting boba fett which is weird, because no one actually knew what he looked like until 2002 and people kept adding **** saying "Oh he's human, no he's an alien!" , and I don't see them starting now.

Maybe not but that doesn't mean they haven't killed off said character or made him completely inept, and have him make some edgy deviantart oc who is "the most powerful being in the universe and has little to none of the weakness or character development of the original" who also happens to be a gay lesbian transvestite ****** asian with lesbian parents

Ewan McGregor has already shown interest in doing a stand alone, so I'm really hoping they chose him. Honestly I don't give a **** about the new Han Solomovie, I just want Ewan McGregor on set doing Obi-wan. They don't even have to give him a script, just let him run around doing whatever!

That Kenobi novel would be a good place to look when making a standalone Kenobi film. Just him by his lonesome acting like some wandering cowboy on Tatooine while checking in on the Lars once and awhile.